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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Related booksOther editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesapostasies April 15 Boston Boylston Chapel brethren Budington candidate certified Christian minister Church and Society Church in Charlestown church-edifice church-members communion Congregational Church Congregationalism course creed devotional culture discourse divine doctrinal Dorchester duty earth earthly ecclesiastical edifice especially faith feeling fellowship fidelity free ministry friends full communion funds furnishings gathered God's HARVARD CHAPEL Harvard Church Harvard College heart highways and schools homes human influence interest intimate professional Jesus Christ Joseph Hurd labors Lexington lowship majority Massachusetts means Medfield Morse numbered occasion old Calvinistic formulas ordination Orthodox parish property parishioners pastor persons pews phase of so-called portion preached prelates President Kirkland privileged professorship proprietors pulpit received relations religion religious renew reverential sacred Salem secession Second Congregational Society share sorrow spirit succession Sunday school sympathy tarian teachers things thousand dollars town trial trust truth Unitarian verities Ware whole worship young Popular passagesPage 37 - He inflamed the controversy by traducing its saintly and revered champions and exponents, whose " resolute and successful purpose that he should not fill the Hollis Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge, nor even dictate who should fill it," was universally believed among the Unitarians to have largely influenced Dr. Page 37 - We may allow much to his natural sorrow and the disturbance of the equipoise of his temper as he saw his old historic church and parish, where Harvard and Shepherd and Morton had ministered, wasting away, because the irresistible developments of human progress around him had brought his Calvinistic creed into discredit, not to say into undisguised contempt, among those whom he met in his daily walks. Page 9 - It seems to me, that such a feeling, whether founded in a sense of right or in a preference, should be respected : otherwise its existence would be an early and a disagreeable experience in my ministry. The partiality of a majority in such a matter should not slight the just wishes of a minority. Page 36 - He had a right to assume the championship of a cause which he professed was dearer to him than life. Men certainly his superiors in all virtues and saintliness had maintained the divine authority and the loveliness of Calvinism. Page 38 - His course as a controversialist determined the action of those who formed our Society. Some of the most influential and prominent members of his Church and parish initiated the movement of secession to form a Liberal Congregational Church. Page 9 - ... below the sterling deserts of his character and mind. Ten years have passed since his short life closed ; one of those lives which, because of its unfulfilled promise on the earth, not through lack of beauty or of power, but through infelicity of conditions and adaptations, * Rev. George F. Simmons. may excel, in the glory of the celestial home, the more successful in earthly rivalries. Page 36 - Morse left this neighborhood in the height of the angry strife which he had inflamed. Bibliographic information
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